A moving video from a farbrengen in Melbourne has captured the passion and emunah of shliach, Rabbi Eli Schlanger HYD, who was murdered in the Sydney terror attack during the Chanukah event at Bondi Beach, which he had organized.

At the farbrengen, Rabbi Schlanger speaks with simplicity and humility about shlichus, hashgacha pratis, and living with the Rebbe in a real and tangible way.

Throughout the farbrengen, Rabbi Schlanger shares firsthand stories of open hashgacha pratis and quiet miracles that accompanied his shlichus. He speaks of the time a 600,000 dollar bill arrived when there was not even five percent of the money in the bank, and how the situation resolved itself without his intervention. He also speaks of the time when projected costs for Chabad at Bondi’s building tripled to nine million dollars, and how an unlikely meeting at a funeral with a man he had never known led to a donation of millions.

He recounts the moment he was explaining to his young son that the Rebbe is truly “with you” when you do a mitzvah, only to look up and see, directly in front of them on an Australian road, a license plate that felt like a message for them.

In another anecdote, he describes standing at the Ohel and asking for reassurance, only to receive his exact answer the very next night through an unexpected message from someone he had helped years earlier.

One chilling story is Rabbi Schlanger’s account of visiting a couple who were traumatized after witnessing a stabbing attack in the Westfield mall in Sydney a day prior. His visit to the couple was not planned, and he only went when another shliach couldn’t come. He saw how Hashem places a shliach exactly where he is needed.

He farbrengs about how shlichus is not about planning or visible success, but about showing up, doing what needs to be done, and trusting that the Rebbe is leading the way, even when the outcome is not yet visible, and how the Rebbe’s presence is constantly felt at every step of the way.

Indeed, the life of Rabbi Eli Schlanger was a true example of “letting the Rebbe do the job.”

והחי יתן אל לבו – And the living should take to heart.

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